Protect your family
with 1Password Families.

Magasin already invests in securing work accounts, devices, and systems. But attackers rarely stop at the office door. They go after personal email, home Wi-Fi, streaming accounts, kids’ school portals, and the one reused password that quietly connects everything.

When your private digital life is messy — weak passwords, shared Netflix logins in a chat, no idea who still has the old Wi-Fi code — stress goes up. You worry about breaches, about family members getting locked out, about mixing work and home. That stress follows you into the workday.

Giving you a free 1Password Families plan is not a perk for its own sake. It is part of how Magasin thinks about security:

• Work stays cleaner. Personal logins live in Families, not in your Magasin Employee vault. Less clutter, fewer mistakes, clearer boundaries.
• Home stays safer. Unique passwords, shared vaults for the household, and recovery options mean fewer panicked “I can’t get in” moments.
• You are harder to phish. People who manage passwords well at home are better at spotting bad links and fake login pages at work too.
• Less mental load. One trusted place for the family’s digital keys means less worrying — and more focus for the work that matters.

As a Magasin employee on 1Password Business/Enterprise, you can claim a free 1Password Families account for home use. It is separate from your Magasin work account — personal items stay personal.

How to redeem

1. Sign in to your Magasin 1Password account (app or browser).
2. Open your profile / account menu and look for Families, Free family account, or a similar benefit offer from 1Password.
3. Follow the prompts to create your Families account. Use a personal email if asked — not your work email — so the account stays yours if you change jobs.
4. Finish setup and add Families to the same 1Password apps you already use. You can switch between Magasin and Families with the account picker.

1Password Families supports you plus family members (typically up to five people total on the plan). Each person gets their own private vaults and can use shared family vaults you choose.

Invite someone

1. In your Families account, open Manage Family / members settings (wording may be People or Family members).
2. Select Invite and enter their email address.
3. They accept the invite, create their own account password / unlock method, and download the app if needed.
4. Once they join, you can share vaults with them — nothing is shared automatically except what you put in shared family vaults.

Everything in 1Password lives in a vault. In Families, the two ideas that matter most are:

• Personal / private vaults — only that person can see the items. Perfect for personal email, banking, private notes.
• Shared family vaults — visible to the family members you give access to. Perfect for household Wi-Fi, streaming, joint travel bookings, kids’ school logins.

When you save a new item, check the account picker (Magasin vs Families) and the vault name before you hit Save.

Prefer shared vaults over texting passwords. When something belongs to the household, put it in a shared vault once — everyone with access gets updates automatically.

Create or use a shared vault

1. In the Families account, create a vault (for example “Home” or “Kids”) or open an existing shared vault.
2. Add the login, note, or Wi-Fi item there.
3. Confirm which family members can access that vault in the vault’s sharing / permissions settings.

As the family organizer you can invite people, remove people who should no longer have access, and help recover a family member who gets locked out — within the recovery options 1Password provides for Families.

Good habits

• Remove access when someone should no longer share household logins (for example after a device is lost, or a living situation changes).
• Do not share your own account password. Each person unlocks 1Password with their own method (password, device unlock, etc.).
• Keep an Emergency Kit / recovery information stored safely offline for your own account.

Watchtower is 1Password’s built-in health check. It flags compromised sites, weak or reused passwords, missing two-factor authentication, and similar risks — for items you can see in your vaults.

In Families, each person still owns their private vaults. Watchtower helps you clean up what you can see; it does not automatically fix someone else’s private items. Shared family vaults are a good place to start together.

What to do

1. Open Watchtower in the 1Password sidebar (app) or the Watchtower section on 1Password.com.
2. Pick one category — for example reused passwords or compromised websites.
3. Open an item, change the password on the real website, and save the new password back into 1Password.
4. For household logins in a shared vault, update them once so everyone gets the new password automatically.

Your Emergency Kit is a one-page record from 1Password with the details you need to get back into your account if a device is lost or you get locked out. It is deliberately sensitive: treat it like a house key and a passport combined.

What to do

1. In 1Password, find the option to view or download your Emergency Kit (often under account / settings help, or during setup).
2. Print it or save a copy somewhere offline — not only in the same cloud folder everyone can browse.
3. Store the paper copy in a physical place your household already treats as secure (a home safe, a locked drawer only trusted adults can open).
4. Ask every adult member of the family to do the same for their own Emergency Kit.

Someone has to be able to invite people, remove access, and help with recovery if you are in hospital, travelling without access, or otherwise unavailable. Plan that while everyone is calm — not in an emergency.

What we recommend

• Make another trusted adult a full family member — ideally with organizer / family-management rights if your Families plan allows more than one person to manage the membership. They use their own account, not yours.
• Store Emergency Kits offline for each adult in a place the right people can reach (home safe, not a random kitchen drawer).
• Write a short household plan: who can manage membership, where the kits live, and that Magasin IT cannot help with your personal Families account.
• Practice once: the second adult should open 1Password, find Manage Family / members, and know where Watchtower and shared vaults are.

Should you create a hidden “emergency admin” login?

It is tempting to invent a second Families admin account, write the password on paper, and hide it in a physical vault “just in case.” We do not recommend that as your main plan.

• Shared secret accounts age badly. Nobody updates the password, everyone forgets it exists, or the paper goes missing — until the worst week of your life.
• One password in a drawer is a single point of failure. Anyone who finds it gets full control; if it is lost, you have no continuity at all.
• It fights 1Password’s model. Families is built around real people with their own unlock methods and Emergency Kits — not a ghost user that “belongs to the house.”

Travel Mode lets you temporarily remove selected vaults from devices when you cross borders — useful if you do not want every secret on a laptop that might be inspected. Turn it on before you travel; restore vaults when you arrive.

If a family member loses access, use 1Password’s family recovery / account recovery flows rather than sharing passwords in chat. Exact steps are in 1Password’s help centre — search for “Families recover” on support.1password.com.

• Use unique passwords generated by 1Password — especially for email (it resets everything else).
• Turn on Watchtower and fix the worst reused or weak personal passwords over time.
• Add 2FA to important personal accounts and store one-time passwords in 1Password.
• Keep Magasin work items in the Magasin account; keep home life in Families.
• Update shared vault items when a password changes so nobody is stuck with an old code.
• Keep Emergency Kits offline for every adult; review the family continuity plan once a year.
• Never share your account password; each person unlocks 1Password themselves.

Bookmark this guide. When a family member joins later, send them here and walk through the shared vault together once.